First Responder's Evidence Disk

The First Responder's Evidence Disk, or FRED, is a script based incident response tool. It was designed to capture volatile information from a computer system for later analysis without modifying anything on the victim. It consists of a batch file used to execute a set of known good tools that gather the state of a victim computer system. It was similar to the IRCR program and has been widely imitated by other tools. Many other incident response tools used names similar to FRED.

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Usage

The program was distributed as a compressed 1.44 MB floppy image. The examiner runs this image on a safe system and writes the FRED program out to a piece of removable media such as a floppy disk or USB device. The examiner then connects this device to the victim machine. When run, the FRED program writes information out to an audit file on the removable device. The examiner takes this audit file back to the safe system for later analysis. The audit file can also be sent to other investigators if desired.